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Note: Rupert Murdoch is nothing less than the equivalent of Satan’s minion when you take into consideration the damage his mass media propaganda machines have done to the overall psyche, awareness and intelligence level of the average American is unimaginable. This article’s a typical example of how media disinformation distorts the mind of reader and why reading this mind- TRASH from publications people have come to love and trust is a complete waste of time. Even worse it’s detrimental to your IQ, when 10-20% of the information you read is false, misinterpreted or omits key facts you can’t claim to be well-informed and at that point you’re living a complete illusion.

People like my parents read the Wall Street Journal and feel they’re well informed, but that’s not the case now that News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch are running the show. With this level of yellow journalism going on at the New York Post, then you can bet the Wall Street Journal holds it’s staff to the same lack of journalistic standards and why the majority of Americans are living a fantasy that has nothing to do with the harsh reality most readers of 2012 The Awakening are aware of.

And we keep wondering why people aren’t waking up to problems we’re facing, the following article sums it up rather well.

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The New York Post, the New York-based daily newspaper run by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., has published 21 opinion pieces on the controversial process of natural gas extraction called hydraulic fracturing (or ‘fracking’) since January 1, 2011.* Many of the op-eds on fracking attack Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) or “enviro-radicals” for not acting faster to cash in on the economic benefits associated with domestic drilling. In addition, the Post almost always fails to acknowledge the health and environmental risks associated with fracking — when it does, it immediately dismisses the dangers, despite ample evidence to the contrary. For example:

The fact is, fracking has proved not only to be a fundamentally safe undertaking, it has delivered immense economic benefits to localities across America.

New York is the only state in the nation where it is not allowed — and that needs to change.

The fear-mongering nihilism that has marked the debate so far needs to end – and, at the very least, it’s up to Cuomo to accelerate the current review.

Indeed, not only would New York become a major new source of relatively clean energy – natural gas; the move is also sure to spawn a whole new industry for economically sclerotic Upstate, generating thousands of jobs.

That’s what’s happened elsewhere in the country where fracking is allowed – including, notably, neighboring Pennsylvania, where tens of thousands of workers have found jobs at companies that employ the process.

Alas, in New York, enviro-radicals got then-Gov. David Paterson to ban the process, pending further study.

They claim that fracking can taint drinking water. Hyperbolic media reports and films like the pseudo-documentary “Gaslands” further fueled public fears.

Yes, there have been fracking accidents — but no lasting damage, and no harm has been done to water supplies.

The Post also gets its facts wrong when it comes to states that have banned fracking. In Feburary, New Jersey’s Republican Governor Chris Christie imposed a one-year ban on the practice in New Jersey, stating, “Potential environmental concerns with fracking in our state must be studied and weighed carefully against the potential benefits of increasing access to natural gas in New Jersey.”

As Media Matters has previously noted, in their fervor to promote fracking, the Post has even gone so far as to hide the industry funding of fracking studies in their editorials.

* The Media Matters analysis was conducted by doing a Nexis search for the terms “hydraulic fracturing” or “fracking” and analyzing the number of times one or both of those terms was used in an opinion piece published by the Post.

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